“There is every reason to be angry. I”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Figure timeline
Robert Fisk
Robert William Fisk was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · English writer and journalist (1946–2020) · journalist · historian · writer · war correspondent · author · also Robert Fisk, Fisk
Born 12 July 1946 · Died 30 October 2020 · Q310900
36 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Award
2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘Fisk really changed my life’: Aaron Chen on leaving Australia for the US and his meteoric rise
- #news
- #headline
2020· 1 entry
Died 2020-10-30.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
2016· 1 entry
Said: "His example was one of great courage
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2014· 1 entry
Writing: "My family was haunted by my father's experience on the Somme and the loss of his friends
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 3 entries
Awarded Carey McWilliams Award (2011).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
“old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War. He learned that Haig had lied, that he himself had fought for a world that betrayed him, that 20,000 British dead on the first day of the Somme—which he mercifully avoided because his first regiment, the Cheshires, sent him to Dublin and Cork to deal with another 1916”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Fisk wrote that his father "old Bill Fisk became very ruminative about the Great War
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2010· 1 entry
“I think it is the duty of a foreign correspondent to be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer, whoever they may be.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
2008· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Kent (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
2007· 1 entry
Fisk expressed personal doubts about the official historical record of the attacks
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2006· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Queen's University Belfast (2006).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize (2006).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Honorary doctors of Ghent University (2006).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
2005· 1 entry
Articulated this position further: "If you believe that victims should have more of a say than people who commit atrocities, then yes, I take a definite position
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2004· 2 entries
Awarded Premi Godó de Periodisme (2004).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews (2004).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
2003· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2003).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
The Arab Spring in 2011, and the ongoing Syrian Civil War
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Said that Fisk was guilty of "hysteria and distortion" in his coverage of Middle Eastern topics
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2002· 1 entry
Awarded Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2002).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
2000· 1 entry
Awarded Amnesty International UK Media Award (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1999· 1 entry
Awarded Orwell Prize (1999).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1998· 1 entry
Awarded Amnesty International UK Media Award (1998).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1997· 1 entry
Bin Laden said he sought God's help "to turn America into a shadow of itself"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1995· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Reporter of the Year (1995).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1994· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Reporter of the Year (1994).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1993· 1 entry
Fisk produced a three-part series, From Beirut To Bosnia, which he said was an attempt "to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1992· 2 entries
Awarded Amnesty International UK Media Award (1992).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
For his report "The Other Side of the Hostage Saga", in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1991· 2 entries
Awarded Jacob's Award (1991).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded James Cameron Memorial Trust Award (1991).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1984· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Lancaster University (1984).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Wrote: "This book presents a detailed and definitive account of Anglo-Irish relations during the Second World War
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-07-12.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth